The Pit
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Benny
Main enemy:	Yssgaroth
Main setting:	Althosian system, 2400
Key crew
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Writer:	Neil Penswick
Release details
Release number:	12
Release date:	March 1993
Format:	Paperback Book, 276 Pages
ISBN 0-426-20378-X
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The Pit is the twelfth novel in the Virgin New Adventures series. It was written by Neil Penswick, was released in 1993 and featured the Seventh Doctor and Bernice.

Publisher's summary Edit

For two weeks now it has been the same message again and again, and it’s getting stronger; death and destruction, the end of all things, Armageddon.

In an attempt to lift the Doctor out of his irritable and erratic mood, Bernice suggests he investigates the mystery of the Seven Planets - an entire planetary system that disappeared without trace several decades before Bernice was born.

One of the Seven Planets is a nameless giant, quarantined against all intruders. But when the TARDIS materialises, it becomes clear that the planet has other visitors: a hit-squad of killer androids; a trespassing scientist and his wife; and two shape-changing criminals with their team of slaves.

As riot and anarchy spread on the system’s colonised worlds, the Doctor is flung into another universe while Bernice closes in on the horror that is about to be unleashed - a horror that comes from a terrible secret in the Time Lords’ past.

Plot Edit

to be added

Characters Edit

• The Doctor
• Bernice Summerfield
• General Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu
• William Blake
• Butler
• Swarf
• Chopra
• The Archon
• Spike
• Major John Carlson
• Bulbir Singh Mann
• Acamedian Brown
• Jarak
• Ell
• Melanie Carlson
• The Fellowship
• Colonel Philips
• Yssgaroth

References Edit

Astronomical objects Edit

• The Seven Planets are in the Althosian system.

The Doctor Edit

• The Doctor kneels to Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu.
• The most pious person the Doctor has ever met is a French Jesuit Missionary in Africa.

Gallifrey Edit

• The Seal of Rassilon is an ancient symbol for warding off evil.
• Gallifrey translates to literally mean "they that walk in shadows".

Individual Gallifreyans Edit

• General Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu is a Gallifreyan military leader against Yssgaroth. He only has one arm.

Individuals Edit

• Bernice Summerfield is now 31 years old.

Writers Edit

• Susan loved the works of William Blake.
• William Blake fell through a portal in 1811.

Animals Edit

• The Doctor once had a marmoset thrown at him by a Cun.

Notes Edit

• A prelude to this novel was published in DWM 197.

Continuity Edit

• TV: State of Decay introduced the legend of the Time Lords' war against the Great Vampires. General Kopyion is revealed as Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu, the legendary Time Lord who led the war.
• Rassilon's experiments and the war with the Vampires are further outlined in PROSE: Interference - Book Two.
• The Doctor may have been partially aware of the events of this story, including his own involvement with them, prior to his arrival in the Althosian system as his previous incarnation once commented to his companion Evelyn Smythe that, from what he has heard, his future self is "always blowing up planets." (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor)

External links Edit

• Prelude to The Pit as published in DWM #197
• Detailed synopsis of The Pit at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Pit at The Whoniverse